Welfare Regimes and the Experience of Unemployment in Europe

Edited by Duncan Gallie and Serge Paugam

Over the last twenty years, most countries have experienced periods of high unemployment. While this always leads to increased poverty and personal distress, the severity of the effects has varied substantially from country to country. This book looks closely at some of the key factors behind these differences. It provides for the first time clear evidence about the way in which the nature of the welfare arrangements in a country, together with its family and friendship patterns, can affect the risk that unemployment leads to social exclusion.

Welfare Regimes and the Experience of Unemployment in Europe

Edited by Duncan Gallie and Serge Paugam

Description

Over the last twenty years, most countries have experienced periods of high unemployment. While this always leads to increased poverty and personal distress, the severity of the effects has varied substantially from country to country. This book looks closely at some of the key factors behind these differences. It provides for the first time clear evidence about the way in which the nature of the welfare arrangements in a country, together with its family and friendship patterns, can affect the risk that unemployment leads to social exclusion.

Welfare Regimes and the Experience of Unemployment in Europe

Edited by Duncan Gallie and Serge Paugam

Table of Contents

1. The Experience of Unemployment in Europe: The Debate, Duncan Gallie and Serge PaugamPART 1: UNEMPLOYMENT AND POVERTY 2. Unemployment and Poverty: Change over Time, Richard Hauser and Brian Nolan3. Poverty and Financial Hardship among the Unemployed, Duncan Gallie, Sheila Jacobs and Serge Paugam4. Unemployment and Income Packaging among European Youth, Ivano Bison and Gosta Esping-Andersen5. The Changing Effects of Social Protection on Poverty, Brian Nolan, Richard Hauser and Jean-Paul ZoyemPART 2: UNEMPLOYMENT AND LABOUR MARKET MARGINALISATION 6. Unemployment, Gender and Attitudes to Work, Duncan Gallie and Susanne Alm7. The Permanent Effects of Labour Market Entry in Times of High Unemployment, Philippe De Vreyer, RichardLayte, Maarten Wolbers and Azhar Hussain8. Unemployment and Cumulative Disadvantage in the Labour Market, Richard Layte, Henrik Levin, Azhar Hussain and Maarten Wolbers9. Poverty and the Employment of Lone Mothers, Lisbeth Pedersen, Hanne Weise, Sheila Jacobs and Michael White10. Social Capital and Exits from Unemployment, # Paolo Barbieri, with Serge Paugam and Helen Russell11. Who Exits Unemployment? Institutional Features, Individual Characteristics and Chances of Getting a Job. A Comparison of Britain and Italy, Fabrizio Bernardi, Richard Layte, Antonio Schizzerotto and Sheila JacobsPART 3 : UNEMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION 12. The Effects of Employment Precarity and Unemployment on Social Isolation, Serge Paugam and Helen Russell13. United
in Employment, United in Unemployment? Employment and Unemployment of Couples in the European Union, Paul M. de Graaf and Wout C. Ultee14. Unemployment and Psychological Well-Being, Christopher Whelan and Frances McGinnity15. Gender and the Experience of Unemployment, Helen Russell and Paolo Barbieri16. Public Attitudes to Unemployment in Different Welfare Regimes, Torben Fridberg and Niels PlougCONCLUSION The Social Regulation of Unemployment, Duncan Gallie and Serge Paugam

Welfare Regimes and the Experience of Unemployment in Europe

Edited by Duncan Gallie and Serge Paugam

Author Information

Duncan Gallie is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford.

Serge Paugam is a Directeur at the CNRS and a member of the Laboratoire de sociologie quantitative, CREST, INSEE, France.